The Police Department, with the largest municipal counter-terrorism operation in the country, wants the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to loosen their approach to the federal law that governs electronic surveillance. But federal officials have refused to relax the standards, and have said requests submitted by the department could actually jeopardize surveillance efforts by casting doubt on their legality.

New York’s department, as a local police force, cannot apply directly, but must seek warrants through the F.B.I. and the Justice Department. The police want those agencies to expedite their requests, and say that the federal agencies unfairly blocked the city’s applications for surveillance warrants, first in June and then in September 2008.

The police Intelligence Division makes its requests for eavesdropping warrants through the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force, a unit in which F.B.I. agents, police detectives and investigators from other agencies work together. The Intelligence Division and the task force work independently of each other, a situation that has been at the heart of the worsening relationship.

The NYPD Intelligence Division is run by David Cohen, a former top Central Intelligence Agency official who holds the rank of deputy commissioner and is often a vocal and unapologetic critic of the F.B.I. Indeed, the Police Department and the C.I.A. are two agencies that often seem to have contempt for the F.B.I., even as investigators work together on many cases.

The FBI is the lead dog on all terrorism cases, no matter who initiated the case, whether it is the NYPD, the Bureau of Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the U.S. Secret Service, say the word terrorism and the FBI takes over the case. Nobody works "with" the FBI on a terrorism case you work "for" the FBI and give them all your Intel and get nothng back. I know for a fact that the FBI drags it's feet in terrorism surveillance cases and even throws out important Intel for fear of reprisal from the Justice Department. The chain of evidence presented to the FBI is a a very long and tiresome trail with suspects moving on, out of the country, before any action is initiated. Look at the Samial-Arian debacle in Tampa Fl, the FBI and the Justice Department tried Al-Arian on old, out dated evidence from the stone ages rather than the current money laundering support of terrorism evidence that would have put Al-Arian away for life.

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